PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
The Korean Peninsula Conflict: A Way Out
Nº430 | Johan Galtung, 30 May 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service
Build on the North Korean goals, hold NK to their words. Their regime will, like all regimes, change; even the USA is now heading for basic change. Design a peace treaty, like with South Korea, normalize diplomatic relations North-South and North-USA; and design a regime for a nuclear free peninsula, destroying or removing weapons monitored by solid UN inspection.
NOBEL LAUREATES
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Appeals to European Union and President Obama to Remove Shameful Sanctions against War-torn Syria
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service
“The petitioners support ‘all humanitarian and peace initiatives that the international community is implementing, in particular through the difficult negotiations in Geneva’. But in the meantime with the hope that the expectations find concrete answers, they ask ‘that the sanctions that affect the daily lives of every Syrian are immediately removed”.
Close Calls: We Were Closer to Nuclear Destruction Than We Knew
Gunnar Westberg – The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Laureates
“The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used — accidentally or by decision — defies credibility.” This unanimous statement was published by the Canberra Commission in 1996. Among the commission members were internationally known former ministers of defense and of foreign affairs and generals.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Existential Challenge of Detecting Today’s Big Lie
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service
Mysterious Black Hole Conditioning Global Civilization? If indeed there was a “big lie” conditioning the dynamics of global civilization, how might evidence of it be detected?
CONFLICT RESOLUTION / MEDIATION
The Scope for Parallel Diplomacy Has Never Been Greater
David Richmond – Foreign Policy In Focus
One of the great diplomatic breakthroughs for which the Obama presidency will undoubtedly be remembered is the re-establishment of relations with Cuba. The role of the Vatican in this rapprochement serves as a reminder that even in the era of systematised diplomacy, significant benefit can be derived from an informal process that takes place away from the limelight.
SPECIAL FEATURE
During WWII European Refugees Fled to Syria – Here Is What the Camps Were Like
Evan Taparata and Kuang Keng Kuek Ser – Public Radio International-PRI
Since civil war erupted in Syria five years ago, millions of refugees have sought safe harbor in Europe by land and by sea, through Turkey and across the Mediterranean. Refugees crossed these same passageways 70 years ago. But they were not Syrians and they traveled in the opposite direction. At the height of World War II, the Middle East Relief and Refugee Administration (MERRA) operated camps in Syria, Egypt and Palestine where tens of thousands of people from across Europe sought refuge.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Humanitarian Summit, the Big Fiasco
Baher Kamal – Inter Press Service-IPS
The World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul on May 23-24 failed to achieve the objective of attracting the massive funds needed to alleviate the humanitarian drama, as neither the leaders of the Group-of-7 richest countries nor of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council attended, with the exception of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Deepening National Antagonisms Dominate G7 Summit
Nick Beams | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
The G7 nations are seeking to ramp up military pressure against China, amid a deepening economic slump and divisions within their own ranks.
IN FOCUS
Target Russia. Target China. Target Iran
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 May 2016 – Not a day goes by without US Think Tankland doing what it does best; pushing all sorts of scenarios for cold – and hot – war with Russia, plus myriad confrontations with China and Iran. That fits into the Pentagon’s Top Five existential threats to the US, where Russia and China sit at the very top and Iran is in fourth place – all ahead of «terrorism» of the phony Daesh «Caliphate» variety.
In an Age of Discovery, It Takes Real Guts to Be Optimistic
Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna – The Huffington Post
Who will dare to stoke our optimism? To accept responsibility, to start fixing the mistakes we’ve made, and with bold actions remind us all that, while we may be more vulnerable, our collective potential has never been greater? Goliath is waiting.
Hammering for Peace
Kathy Kelly | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
Their artistic project embraces a vision from the biblical “Book of Isaiah” which longs for the day when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they study war anymore.” Our friends quite literally enact this vision.
Cultivating Symbols for Peace and Harmony
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
The world is full of symbols – religious, cultural, historical, archaeological, linguistic and nationalistic. Flags are a powerful symbol of a country… Let us remember and fortify our good symbols, let us avoid the pitfall of extreme negative, repressive and harmful symbolism that is becoming an inevitable part of modern life.
SURVEILLANCE / SPYING / WHISTLEBLOWING / BIG BROTHER
How the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers
Mark Hertsgaard – The Guardian
Long before Edward Snowden went public, John Crane was a top Pentagon official fighting to protect NSA whistleblowers. Instead their lives were ruined – and so was his.
• Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by Pentagon source
• Exclusive: Pentagon source goes on record against whistleblower program
Vindication for Edward Snowden from a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga
Jenna McLaughlin and Dan Froomkin – The Intercept
New key player: John Crane, a former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers was forced to become one himself when the process failed.
WikiLeaks Exposes Text from Secretly Negotiated TISA Trade Deal
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
The TISA is one of three international trade deals being negotiated in secret, along with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, trade deal. Collectively, these agreements encompass 75 to 95 percent of global GDP.
AFRICA
Malawi: Albino Killings on the Rise, Bishops Speak Out
Catholic News Agency – Eurasia Review
26 May 2016 – Amid increased violence against albinos in the southeastern African nation of Malawi, the bishops’ justice and peace commission has condemned their killing, which is linked to the practice of witch doctors.
The Paradox of Congo: How the World’s Wealthiest Country Became Home to the World’s Poorest People
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee – Think Progress
In the DRC, the vast majority of people live in extreme poverty, earning only around $400 a year. The country is reeling from instability, hunger, and disease. One in seven children dies before they turn 5 years old. And more than 5.4 million people have died since 1993 because of armed conflict. “Why are we living through hell in paradise?”
ANGLO AMERICA
Make Serving in War an Option Not an Order
Kristin Y. Christman – TRANSCEND Media Service
Government has absolutely no right to demand that our sons register and prepare for blood sacrifice today. No one has the right to such power over another being. So let’s move beyond blood sacrifice and make the practical sacrifices that truly resolve conflict.
Duty to Warn – Blood on the Tracks: Vietnam Veteran Brian Willson Discusses Memorial Day [30 May] and the American Way Of Life (AWOL)
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
“We fail our duties as citizens if we remain silent rather than calling our US wars for what they are – criminal and deceitful aggressions violating international and US law to assure control of geostrategic resources, deemed necessary to further our insatiable American Way Of Life.”
Silencing America as It Prepares for War
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service
As the U.S. government plunges toward war with nuclear-armed Russia and/or China, there is an unsettling silence — or unnerving consensus — regarding the potential extinction of human existence. In 2009, Obama promised to help “rid the world of nuclear weapons” and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. No American president has built more nuclear warheads than Obama.
Economic Costs of US Wars
Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service
The USA has spent or obligated 4.4 trillion dollars on the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq paid almost entirely by borrowing, which has raised the US budget deficit, increased the national debt, and had other macroeconomic effects, such as raising consumer interest rates. We estimate that interest payments over war borrowings could total over $7 trillion by 2053.
It’s Not Just Hiroshima: The Many Other Things America Hasn’t Apologized For
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post
26 May 2016 – This week, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city that the United States nearly destroyed with a nuclear bomb in 1945. It’s reasonable to ask, after more than 70 years, why not apologize for Hiroshoma? But what else has America not apologized for? Here are a few ideas.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
Indonesia: Child Tobacco Workers Suffer as Firms Profit
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service
Thousands of children in Indonesia, some as young as 8 years old, are at the bottom of the supply chain for many multinational and Indonesian tobacco companies. These children are getting exposed to nicotine and toxic pesticides. Child tobacco workers can absorb nicotine through their skin, and many suffer nausea, vomiting, headaches, and dizziness – all symptoms of acute nicotine poisoning.
[Jeju Forum] Norwegian Scholar Johan Galtung Criticizes No ‘Exit Strategy’ on North Korea
The Korea Herald – TRANSCEND Media Service
23 May 2016 – Despite Pyongyang’s unabated nuclear ambitions, Seoul should seek to craft an “exit strategy” to defuse cross-border tension away from the current focus on sanctions and pressure, said Johan Galtung, founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
BRICS
Shocking Brazil Leaks Prompt Panic in Fraud-Riddled Coup Gov’t
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service
Fear that more damning leaks solidifying claims that the plan to remove suspended President Dilma Rousseff was a coup is settling in around the unelected interim President Michel Temer, prompting advisors to suggest a shift of corrupt ministers as political scandal rocks the imposed government just two weeks after being installed.
EUROPE
How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right?
Gregor Aisch, Adam Pearce and Bryant Rousseau – The New York Times
The candidate for the far-right Freedom Party in Austria lost the country’s cliffhanger presidential election on Monday [16 May] by the slimmest of margins. Still, it was an example of the electoral gains made by right-wing parties in a growing number of European countries amid a migrant crisis, sluggish economic growth and growing disillusionment with the European Union.
Troika Heat-Seeking Missile Destroys Greece
Robert Hunziker – Dissident Voice
23 May 2016 – It is scorched-earth economic warfare, ordinarily referred to as neoliberalism. The newest twist/manipulation in negotiations with Troika for Greece survival (demise) in order to provide the country with €86 billion of which 90% pays off debt, 10% to the state, demands Greece cut pensions (again), raise taxes (again), privatize state assets (for a song), and deregulate (squelch) labor. Inspirational?
Major Police Operation against Roma in Berlin
Andy Niklaus and Karola Kleinert | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
On Sunday [22 May] evening, the Berlin police conducted a brutal raid on Roma families protesting against their deportation at the memorial to the Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis. On April 8, a commemorative day for the murdered Sinti and Roma took place at the same place. German President Joachim Gauck along with other prominent politicians proclaimed their solidarity with Sinti and Roma. The deployment of police against a peaceful Roma protest at the same location demonstrate how hollow such words are.
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
Operation Condor: A US Program of Cross-Border Disappearance, Torture, and Death
J. Patrice McSherry - teleSUR
Operation Condor’s targets were activists, organizers, and opponents of the dictatorships. In the Cold War climate of the 1960s and ’70s, when U.S. leaders and Latin American militaries regarded popular movements and political dissidents as “internal enemies,” any methods were considered legitimate in the “war against subversion.”
PALESTINE / ISRAEL
Google Wipes Palestine Off the Map
Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service
After Googling around, I have discovered that when you ask what time it is in any country on earth, Google tells you – right there in that prominently-placed box above the search results. Except Palestine. Google is apparently part of the Zionist entity dedicated to wiping Palestine off the map. The only “Palestine” Google knows is a town in Texas.
A Brief Chronological History of Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service
Palestinians are the endogenous people of the Southern Land of Canaan (Western Part of the Fertile Crescent), the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Key milestones in human civilization occurred in this Land of Canaan: animal and plant domestication, development of the alphabet, and development of laws and religions.
BDS Is Free Speech, Says Dutch Government
Michael Deas | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service
25 May 2016 – The Netherlands has affirmed that activism calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel is a form of free speech. Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said that “statements or meetings concerning BDS are protected by freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, as enshrined in the Dutch constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Famed Feminist British Historian Refuses Prestigious Israeli Award
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service
Catherine Hall withdraws from $330,000 prize due to Tel Aviv University’s complicity in the occupation of Palestine.
Nakba Survivors Share Their Stories of Loss and Hope
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service
In 1948, Zionist militias attacked Palestinian cities and villages and destroyed more than 530 Palestinian villages. About 13,000 Palestinians were killed and more than 750,000 were expelled from their homes, becoming refugees. Here Palestinians share their stories of displacement, loss and hope to return to their villages.
Ireland Latest EU State to Defend BDS
Kevin Squires | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 May 2016 – In another blow to the Israeli campaign to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism, the Irish government has affirmed that the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement represents a “legitimate” means of protest “intended to pressure Israel into ending the occupation.”
NEW / CHANGING PARADIGMS
Toward Democratic Eco-socialism as the Next World System
Hans A. Baer | The Next System Project – TRANSCEND Media Service
Hans Baer proposes a new approach to what he calls “authentic socialism.” As opposed to past experiments with socialism – associated with sudden revolutions, violence, and adverse economic contexts – democratic eco-socialism in his vision would emerge slowly through a series of “system challenging reforms” and pressures from social movements.
CAPITALISM
Bayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell
Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins | Organic Consumers Association – TRANSCEND Media Service
24 May 2016 – If Monsanto, the most hated GMO company in the world, joins hands with Bayer, one of the most hated Big Pharma corporations on Earth (whose evil deeds date back to World War I and the Nazi era), the newly formed seed-pesticide-drug behemoth would have combined annual sales of $67 billion.
Wall Street’s New Man in Brazil: The Forces Behind Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment
José L. Flores – CounterPunch
Acting President Michel Temer is simultaneously being investigated for bribery and corruption. When one studies his political apparatus, it has become apparent that a return to neoliberal economic policies is the actual goal. These impeachment proceedings seem to be secretly guided by the U.S. State Department, Defense Department and U.S. business interests. According to recent internal documents, provided by WikiLeaks, on several occasions Michel Temer was an embassy informant for U.S. intelligence.
We Have Entered the Looting Stage of Capitalism: Germany’s Assault on the IMF
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service
The way Germany sees it, the IMF is supposed to lend Greece the money with which to repay the private German banks. Then the IMF is to be repaid by forcing Greece to reduce or abolish old age pensions, reduce public services and employment, and use the revenues saved to repay the IMF.
TRADE
WikiLeaks Says Secretive Trade Agreement Paves Way to ‘Corporatization of Public Services’
John Dyer – Vice News – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 May 2016 – WikiLeaks has released thousands of documents that show how officials negotiating the Trade in Services Agreement, or TiSA, could force privatization on public institutions around the world. The most surprising revelations involve state-owned enterprises, or SOEs — government-owned corporations that often operate like private businesses but pursue public goals, experts said.
ENVIRONMENT
600 Tons of Melted Radioactive Fukushima Fuel Still Not Found, Clean-Up Chief Reveals
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service
24 May 2016 – The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning said. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from 2021.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
A Pox on the House of Nuclear Weapons
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus
In effect, the nuclear ban treaty will put a curse on nuclear weapons. A ban treaty imposes nothing on anybody, but demands, through its undeniable political and legal reality, that everyone re-evaluate and re-conceptualize nuclear weapons… Nuclear weapons become a collective international liability rather than an individual national asset.
MILITARISM
Putin Vows Retaliation over US Missile Shield; Warns Poland, Romania Now in the “Cross Hairs”
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 May 2016 – While Obama was in Hiroshima as the first standing president of the only nation to have ever used a nuclear weapon during wartime, and without offering an apology to Japan, Russian president Putin was in Greece. The Greek people have turned increasingly against remaining in the Eurogroup, a shift Putin certainly hopes to capitalize on. But it wasn’t the latest Greek pivot toward Russia that was the highlight of Putin’s trip: it was his latest warning that the Russian response to the most recent NATO provocation in Europe will be significant.
GENETIC ENGINEERING
Taiwan Recalls Quaker Oats Products Imported from US after Detecting Glyphosate
Lorraine Chow| EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 May 2016 – More bad news for Quaker Oats. A random inspection from Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) detected glyphosate in 10 out of 36 oatmeal products it tested, exceeding the country’s legal limit.
Roundup’s Toxic Chemical Glyphosate, Found in 100% of California Wines Tested
A Sheep No More – TRANSCEND Media Service
Before you pop open a bottle of California Merlot, there is something you should know: trace amounts of glyphosate, the primary toxic chemical found in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, have been found in 100% of California wines tested by the national GMO awareness group, Moms Against Monsanto. The news comes on the heels of a report finding 14 brands of beers tested positive for the likely carcinogen in Germany.
SEXUALITIES
Tunisia: UN Panel Condemns Forced Anal Exams
Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service
23 May 2016 – The UN Committee Against Torture condemned the use of forced anal examinations as an attempt to find “proof” against people accused of homosexual conduct in Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said today.
ARTS
The CIA and Hollywood, an Unlawful Alliance
John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News
CIA employees taking gifts from Hollywood producers for giving them, in the case of Zero Dark Thirty, classified briefings on the bin Laden raid is bad enough. The CIA director leaking classified information to the producers is worse. Therein lies the problem with the relationship between the CIA and Hollywood. There’s little-to-no oversight. And when rules and laws are broken, nobody has to pay the piper.
MUSIC
The Music of Hopelessness
John Feffer – Foreign Policy In Focus
From the comfortable alt-rock of PJ Harvey to the hypnotic antagonism of Anohni, new protest music offers a relief from the official rhythms of war and peace.
HISTORY
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 30–Jun 5 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” – Marianne Williamson
HEALTH
10 Warning Signs of Vitamin C Deficiency
Baba-Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service
According to a study at the University of Illinois, many fell short of consuming enough vitamin C. But getting enough of this essential vitamin is important for our overall well-being. In fact, high blood levels of vitamin C may be the ideal nutrition marker for overall health. If you are concerned that you might be deficient in vitamin C, here are some signs and indications you should be on the look-out for.
SCIENCE
Scientists Discover How Supermassive Black Holes Keep Galaxies Turned Off
Eurasia Review – TRANSCEND Media Service
26 May 2016 – An international team of scientists has identified a common phenomenon in galaxies that could explain why huge numbers of them turn into cosmic graveyards. Galaxies begin their existence as lively and colorful spiral galaxies, full of gas and dust, and actively forming bright new stars.
SCIENCE / SPIRITUALITY
The Great Event – A Pot Kumbha with Nectarine Drops
Prof. Chandra P Trivedi – TRANSCEND Media Service
Kumbha Mela at Ujjain with entry of sun in Aries and Jupiter in Leo has a special significance. When, sun emits gigantic radiations with nectarine drops. It is the great event on the Earth. It has given the way for origin of life with cordial atmospheric conditions on earth. To preserve the ancient wisdom, the Kumbha Mela is celebrated with every twelve years cycle.
BIOGRAPHIES
Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): On Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service
Angelou’s timeless wisdom shines with unparalleled light in a 1977 interview by journalist Judith Rich, in which Angelou explores issues of identity and the meaning of life.
POETRY FORMAT
Galileo’s Irony
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service
If the earth human survives is a globe, justice will pronounce
But the globe and the justice are contrast to the reality
If the mind well-dressed is in heart, then the humanity will beam
But the mind and the humanity are contrast to the reality
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
(Português) O vegetarianismo e a literatura russa desde Tolstói
Dária Amínova - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais
25 de maio de 2016 – De acordo com dados de uma pesquisa realizada pelo portal SuperJob, atualmente cerca de 4% da população russa é vegetariana. Porém, poucas pessoas sabem que, desde o século 19, escritores russos são alguns dos principais defensores das ideias do vegetarianismo.
(Italiano) Guerra, ambiente, nonviolenza
Elena Camino – Centro Studi Sereno Regis
Riprendendo le parole di Edgan Morin – alla barbarie a noi più nota, che è quella della guerra, delle torture, della fame, se ne aggiunge un’altra fatta dal calcolo, dal profitto, dalla tecnologia al servizio dell’economia – possiamo concordare con lui nel pensare che ‘sono due demoni tra loro alleati’…
(Italiano) Quando la Siria ospitava i rifugiati europei
Evan Taparata e Kuang Keng Kuek Ser | PRI – Frontiere News
Nei primi anni ’40, Aleppo (così come Nuseirat in Palestina e diverse località in Egitto) ha accolto migliaia di europei in fuga dagli orrori e dalle tragedie della seconda guerra mondiale.
(Italiano) Marinaleda: un’utopia concreta
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
Il concetto base è ben noto: le autorità hanno espropriato terre lasciate incolte nel bel mezzo di un bracciantato disoccupato e alla fame, trasformamdole in una cooperativa comunale con abitazioni molto economiche, asilo d’infanzia, scuole, cliniche. Dietro c’è stata per oltre 30 anni la visione, la sapienza, l’abilità, la volontà del sindaco, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo. Con la mente, una realtà, e la volontà di cambiarla, quella realtà.
(Português) Suecos Criam Máquina Solar Capaz de Purificar 600 Litros de Água/Hora
CicloVivo – TRANSCEND Media Service
O sistema elimina bactérias, vírus, amebas e parasitas e é ideal para ser aplicado em locais que não têm saneamento.
(Português) A tragédia da guerra na construção da memória e do património
Paulo Mendes Pinto - Visão
De Aleppo ao Krack des Chevaliers, a Vivência Dupla das Memórias – É dramático quando a resposta certa nos leva para um denominador comum que é a guerra, a destruição. Sim, o que mais nos espanta é a guerra destruidora que se criou. O resto? O resto são roupas que se vestem e despem conforme as culturas.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
North Korean Children Playing Guitar (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor - TRANSCEND Media Service
Little children playing big guitars (taller than them?). They even try a timid choreography. Lovely!
(Português) Entrevista de Glenn Greenwald com Dilma Rousseff: A Primeira Desde Sua Suspensão
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service
May 19, 2016 – Do Palácio da Alvorada, em Brasília, a presidente suspensa do Brasil falou ao The Intercept sobre suas declarações de que é vítima de um ‘golpe’, as acusações contra ela, a guinada à direita planejada pelo governo interino, e como ela acha que os brasileiros devem protestar e lutar contra esta subversão da democracia.
Johan Galtung 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
Vasco Horta Barata – TRANSCEND Media Service
A transcend_media super production.
SATIRE
Viet Con (not a typo)
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service
With friends like these who needs an enemy?
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Help Line
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service
Please hold the line.
“Capitalism and State sovereignty are goners. Bankism rules the world in all respects now.” “Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.” — Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A.
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